Job Description :
Sr. Software Performance/Quality Engineer
Santa Clara, CA
Contract
The ideal candidate for this position is a software engineer with a strong background in web application bench-marking, test automation, performance analysis, and capacity management.
In this role you will create infrastructure, automation, and tools that drive realistic loads against the core services of our platform. You will also enable peers in engineering, customer support, and cloud teams to leverage our tools to provide related services.
In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
3+ years of experience in DevOps, Performance Engineering, and/or Tools Development teams for the Enterprise
3+ years of experience testing large scale web-based distributed applications on containers such as Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, Web Logic, and Web Sphere in a Linux production environment running MySQL and Oracle
Ability to work with development teams to develop, test, deploy and report on product performance, quality, security and stability
Proven Linux skills: including system administration, script development, file system management, searching/finding files
Desire to seek continuous improvement in the quality assurance processes to drive better quality and efficiency
Solid understanding of job control and direct experience with shell scripting and text processing (e.g. awk, sed, perl)
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with an aptitude anassion for learning new technologies
Candidate must be a good team player with solid attention to detail, and the ability to work well in a collaborative team environment
BS/MS Degree in Computer Science with solid experience developing and deploying mission critical software
Strongly Desired (More is Better):
Deep knowledge and experience with the CentOS/RedHat operating system in large-scale production environments
Background with test and server monitoring tools (e.g. App Dynamics, Jenkins, Splunk, New Relic)
Solid background with agile software development methodologies (e.g. scrum)
Familiarity with the ServiceNow platform, including development of customizations beyond out-of-box
Experience with concurrency, multithreading, and the deployment of distributed system architectures
Understanding of database schemas, table spaces, indexing, anerformance optimization techniques
Remarks:
MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.